Only in America…

What scientific publishing really needs is a cost-free publishing system that is run by the universities, and where the universities publish all their papers in.

Maybe that’s the reason that Israel has US politics on the leash.

I’m non-native (native German, learned English in school). Nearly everything I read or write is English, though, and I’ve probably read more English books than most of the native speakers.

I was running a server hosting a Gutenberg mirror at home 30+ years ago. And no, it’s not public.

One of my schoolmate was a serious asshole. Our guesses for his future were either he’d be a lawyer, or he’ll make a career in the FDP (a more money for the rich kind of political party here, with a “liberal” label).

I was not surprised to learn that he is lawyer, working for exactly that party.

Well, it actually has a few more circles and lines, but yes.

The CIA operatives currently risking their lives in the country will be soooo happy that Trump publicly supports them /s

Zohran Mamdani

Knows politics, but is a person I’d trust to fix things.

Network Administration.

If the network and servers all work: What are we paying you for?

If the network or one of the servers are down: What are we paying you for?

Some local plants might be edible and even delicious, but they are either way to costly to grow or harvest, or they are nigh impossible to preserve. Or they simply are edible, but not sustaining, like sucking nectar from stinging nettle blossoms.

Some are acquired tastes like e.g. turnip tops. You could probably harvest tons of them, but there is no real market for it.

Or take edible flowers, you basically can’t preserve them, and all you can do is put them on a dish for decoration.

Pearl Onions are a borderline case, for example. Between harvest and sitting in the pickling juice they only have a few hours (3-6, IIRC), or they are a case for the compost heap.

No, I’m not afraid. I’ve been using me-dashes for decades now, and I won’t stop just because some idiots flood the streets with worthless AI junk that happens to copy long-established practices in text formatting.

Who would have thought that such a thing could happen? Apart from anyone knowing enough about computers, I mean?

If push comes to shove, you can still use Notepad++ under Wine. It works.

I use Kate for my editing needs, fast and good regexp work, which is important for me.

I’m angry about all five castings. Same about the casting of an african-american as Heimdall in the MCU - What would be whiter than a nordic god? But using while actors for non-white roles is the vast majority of miscasts.

Autism diagnosis rates. Quite a difference.

What’s in the sandwich?

So this was not an Aeroflot flight? Because Aeroflot had a tiny little network security incident…

Just after a message that stated how AI developed software deleted the main database and lied about it. Really builds trust and confidence into AI-based projects.

The biggest De-Dollarization efforf is done in the White House itself, with their attempt to get the US Treasury under control.